susanr Colorado
11/10/17 9:22 pm
Not currently. It's annoying, though.
This is as good a place as any to insert a link to Merriam-Webster's pretty hilarious "Usage Note" about their inclusion of the "figurative" (essentially) definition of the word "literally," and public reaction to it.
Basically they seem to be saying: We didn't just add it now; literally every dictionary includes it {ha ha see what we did?}; and has done so for eons, including us... Language changes; it's our duty to document *usage*; if you idiots didn't use it that way we wouldn't have had to do this; but hey it's not so bad really.
www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
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